It may be the case that increased worldwide communication through radio, television, the Internet and globalization has reduced the tendency to regional variation.

In networking, in particular IP networks such as the Internet, jitter can refer to the variation ( statistical dispersion ) in the delay of the packets.

Channels used to initiate cybersex are not necessarily exclusively devoted to that subject, and participants in any Internet chat may suddenly receive a message with any possible variation of the text " Wanna cyber?

A variation on the Internet café business model is the LAN gaming center, used for multiplayer gaming.

While the number of users employing these non-standard plural forms of virus was always a proportionally small percentage of the English-speaking population, the variation was notable because it coincided with the growth of the Internet, a medium on which users of viri were over-represented.

* In August 2010, the FTC chargeed Internet Listing Service with sending fake invoices to small business and others listing the existing domain name of the consumers Website or a slight variation on the domain name.

In this variation, a fraudster feigns interest in a vehicle for sale on the Internet.

A variation of Internet marketing fraud offers tickets to sought-after events such as concerts, shows, and sports events.

Trax FM on DAB and the Internet carries the Doncaster variation of the station.

On the Internet, a greater variation on the signature theme is often seen.

Frequency of either " Y ’ all " or " You all " to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation.

Frequency of just " Y ’ all " to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation.

E-wrestling has evolved as a term for an Internet variation on creative roleplay, based on the world of professional wrestling.

In the discussion which follows, the time average of the radio emission will be referred to as the constant component, and the superimposed periodic variation will be called the variable component.

The Drexel collection, called Composite, to be shown by Titche's offers a realistic approach to decorating, a mature modern that is a variation of many designs.

Linguistic anthropology ( also called anthropological linguistics ) seeks to understand the processes of human communications, verbal and non-verbal, variation in language across time and space, the social uses of language, and the relationship between language and culture.

Biological anthropologists are interested in both human variation and in the possibility of human universals ( behaviors, ideas or concepts shared by virtually all human cultures ) They use many different methods of study, but modern population genetics, participant observation and other techniques often take anthropologists " into the field ," which means traveling to a community in its own setting, to do something called " fieldwork.

Another variation called yuanyang ( 鴛鴦, named after the Mandarin duck ) originated in Hong Kong and consists of half black tea and half coffee.

A variation of bock called ' bokbier ' is also brewed extensively in the Netherlands and occasionally in Belgium.

Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.

In mineralogy, diamond ( from the ancient Greek αδάμας – adámas " unbreakable ") is an allotrope of carbon, where the carbon atoms are arranged in a variation of the face-centered cubic crystal structure called a diamond lattice.

This forced development of a variation of DECT, called DECT 6. 0, using a slightly different frequency range ; the technology is nearly identical, but the frequency difference makes the technology incompatible with systems in other areas, even from the same manufacturer.

Funerals in Islam ( called Janazah in Arabic ) follow fairly specific rites, though they are subject to regional interpretation and variation in custom.

A variation from Serres is called Akanés.

Another variation along the same lines, called " Realfield " or " Realistic Garfield ", is to redraw Garfield as a real cat as well as removing his thought balloons.

In Spain, a variation on the drink called Gin Tónica has become popular.

The rules are basically the same as ice hockey, but one variation has an extra player on the ice called a " rover ".

A popular variation of Hollywood-Style Lindy Hop called LA-style Lindy Hop has a few technical changes in the footwork and fewer steps.

This variation is called the diesel cycle.

The Inuit language of Quebec is called Inuttitut by its speakers, and often by other people, but this is a minor variation in pronunciation.

There has also been a theory that challenges irreducible complexity called facilitated variation.

Brahms's works in variation form include, among others, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the Paganini Variations, both for solo piano, and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn ( now sometimes called the Saint Anthony Variations ) in versions for two pianos and for orchestra.

In some formal language studies, ( e. g. AFL Theory ) a variation on the Kleene star operation called the Kleene plus is used.

A later variation of the K6 CPU, K6-2, added floating point-based SIMD instructions, called 3DNow !.

Variations include the longer and more pointed iták intended for combat, and it was also used during the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish colonial authorities, later becoming a signature weapon of guerrillas in the Philippine-American War ; the longest variation, called a kampilan, was used by the ancient sultanates of Mindanao.

The climate is tropical with little variation, tempered all year round ( but particularly from December through February ) by the steady north-easterly winds called the alizés or trade winds.

" All American states have an agency which is usually called the " Medical Board ", although there are alternate names such as " Board of Medicine ," " Board of Medical Examiners ", " Board of Medical Licensure ", " Board of Healing Arts " or some other variation.

The radar beam would follow a linear path in vacuum, but it really follows a somewhat curved path in the atmosphere because of the variation of the refractive index of air, that is called the radar horizon.

Games that borrow from the Worms concept include Warmux and Hedgewars ( open source, for Linux, Macintosh, Windows ), Hogs of War ( 3D variation featuring pigs, for PlayStation and PC ) and Snails for Pocket PC.

The Franklin REX 5, ( also known as the “ Rex-Pro ”, as the “ Rex 5000 ”, and with cosmetic variation as the “ Rex 5001 ”) was one of the Rex line of Personal Digital Assistants, each a PCMCIA PC card and thus the size of a credit card, built around a Toshiba microprocessor emulating a Zilog Z80.

A variation on the peer-to-peer model is peer-to-browser, whereby images are shared on one PC with the use of a local ( on the host computer ) software service ( much like peer-to-peer ) but made available to the viewer through a standard web browser.